VPN – Uses wg-quick to toggle the Wireguard interface.Modify the scripts using xrandr to configure it as per your setup. Two scripts are used here: activate_hdmi.sh enables the HDMI display, and laptop_only.sh disables it. HDMI – Toggles the external monitor if connected.Enabling this switch limits the battery charging to 75%. To preserve battery life it’s generally a good idea to limit the maximum battery charge to about 70-80%. Limit BAT – I often have my laptop connected to AC power.My i3status bar links has a few toggles that trigger custom scripts. The configuration for that can be found here. When the external display is connected another i3rust bar is displayed with additional information. I’ll discuss this in some more detail later. The touch pad toggle also has a global keyboard shortcut configured via xbindkeys. The associated scripts for these toggle icons are located here and the i3rust bar configuration is here. I use the i3status-rust status bar’s toggle icons to make common actions easier to perform. The social workspace has a slightly complicated layout defined in it’s layout file, generated using the i3-save-tree utility. All of this is configured using the i3 config file. The workspace 1: Coding, 2: Browsing and 5: Media / Others appear on the secondary monitory if it is connected. In i3, workspaces are an easy way to group a set of windows.Ĭommonly used applications are mapped to specific workspace via the i3 configuration file. The full desktop with the second monitor connected via HDMI.

Once we login, we should see i3 with the default configuration. Restart the machine, and we should first be greeted with the drive decryption prompt, followed by the login manager. dunst: ArchWiki goes into some configuration details.īefore starting with the next step, let’s confirm that everything done till now works well.rofi: I found this blog that has a series of posts describing what rofi can do.i3lock: this man page lists supported arguments.rofi – Window switcher & application launcherįor i3lock, dunst and rofi I use the default configuration that comes out of the box but all of these are quite configurable.Next, lets install i3 and related components: sudo apt-get install i3 i3lock dunst rofi Next time we boot up, this is what will greet us during login instead of the command line prompt. This will also install the GTK greeter for LightDM. Let’s start by installing a login manager. A display manager, or login manager, is typically a graphical user interface that is displayed at the end of the boot process in place of the default shell.

I3 manager